Accession number
PML 16911
Published
Boston: Thayer and Eldridge, 114 and 116 Washington St., 1860.
Credit line
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan, 1910.
Notes
First ed.
Collection of anti-slavery papers, poems, etc., commemorative of John Brown. Selections include facsimile autographs.
Contributions by Thoreau, Louisa May Alcott, Ralph Waldo Emerson, etc.
Pages 437-454 contain the printed addresses delivered at the John Brown Memorial Exercises, Dec. 2, 1859, for which the Morgan owns several of the manuscripts (Cf. MA 884).
"John Brown's prison letters" (letters addressed to Brown in prison at Charlestown, Va.)--p. [385]-433.
Publisher's advertisements, final [2] p.
Collection of anti-slavery papers, poems, etc., commemorative of John Brown. Selections include facsimile autographs.
Contributions by Thoreau, Louisa May Alcott, Ralph Waldo Emerson, etc.
Pages 437-454 contain the printed addresses delivered at the John Brown Memorial Exercises, Dec. 2, 1859, for which the Morgan owns several of the manuscripts (Cf. MA 884).
"John Brown's prison letters" (letters addressed to Brown in prison at Charlestown, Va.)--p. [385]-433.
Publisher's advertisements, final [2] p.
Description
513, [3] pages : illustration ; 20 cm
Inscriptions/Markings
Pencil annotations by Thoreau at the bottom of page 442, purported to list the names of the selectmen of Concord who refused to allow the bell to be tolled on the day of the memorial exercises.
Provenance
Henry David Thoreau, signature (front endleaf).
Binding
Publisher's greenish brown cloth, with publisher's monogram stamped in blind on covers, spine lettered in gold. Housed in 1/4 blue morocco case.
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